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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-20

We have added some choice resi-
douce and suburban property to our
lists this week. Call and select.
j T.. ELGIN Il Co.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-20

The place where the accident oc
CARED was At Eugle Point, one OF the
shortest curves IN the road aud where
MI trains have to " whistle aud Sow up.
This morning there WAS heavy tog,
The south bound train was moving at
good speed and jhe engines could not
nc seen until within twenty feet OF
each other and too late for either en-
ginccrs or tircmcn to Jump
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-20

MOST vIoLrSr CHARACTER.
ROME, Sept i9-Ibe cholera which is
inhabitants of Me-
linn l. 81 the most violent character,
death frequently ensuing ia an hour
after the attack, The mortality l.
not confined % the lower classes.
There is grca, misery among the PEG
pie.
GRAVE pIGGEKs EtrCsE
to pursue their calling until compel
led b, the troops Theoridcmic has
appeared among the prisoners. The
true state Of affairs ma, not yet been
published. 1t /, reported that many
new cases OF cholera are occurring in
klIne dolly.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-20
A fortunate Family.

David Nicholsop's Liquid Bread or
Extract Malt, at b. a. Little " Cos
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-20
Train Ven Crushed and En2in
Gers aud Iircmcn Especially
suffer in the Collision.
The Railroad company selects
i'm ihis Iu,tnnCC the Dis.
PA hcru, the Scapc- Coal.


DU BCQvE, Iowa. sept, IA nor
riblc accident on the Chicago, Mil.
waukee and st. Paul railroad two
miles north of this city took place at
about j;30 O'Clock this morning. Inc
north enj south bound passenger
train. colidcd II, lul ,pced. Five
persons were killed outright and
many injured.
A LATER REPORT.
Dr. BuQrE, Iowa, sept. ~ The
most disastrous snd fatal railroad
accident which has ccurrcd in this
vicinity tor wears took place this
moruing at 1:Oj, Oh the Chicago, Mil
wAuGcc and ST. Paul railroad, two
miles north of Dubuque. Two pas
seuger trains co.ided on curl o
around Eaglo Point, by which Il .
two cnginere and one fireman were
instantly killed. The other fire
man ana brakeman died
duriI4 the iorcnoon-in
all, i've persons. Charles Falcs, one
of the oldest engineers on the road.
was on the engine Of the south bound
train and E'Wcr Winchester on the
north bound train VIM. Richmond
and LIw9rd CuDmiug- were tiremcn
and all those lived IN Du Buquo.
John PeWitty, OF Milwaukee, brake
man on the nCr b bound train. was
instantly KILLED lie was riding on
tho engine so rs to open the switch
AT Peru, three mile, u,yond, aud the
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-20

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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

Major Sanford also had story to tell,
an interesting reference to (Which is record
ed in his report He says: "July 18th |
received information from Lieutenant
Williams in command of Nez Perez scouts,
that while in camp on the Daley road Il
place not far from Ladd's canyon he had
been fired into by party of white men, and
one of his Indians mortally wounded.
The other Indians were very incensed at
what they considered wanton outrage,
and determined to return home" The
parties who did this foul deed asserted
that they saw these friendly Indians, and
noticing their dress, their manner of going
from place to place, and the subtlencss of
their motions, they came to the conclusion
that they were Indians and belonged to
the Snakes"
The scouts could never be made to be-
lieve but that these rough white men had
intended to murder their companion, who
lived but short time after he was wound
ed. They at first insisted on returning to
their agency, but remained while longer
from a singular circumstance. These Nez
Perez scouts were Christians, the wounded
Indian sent for his enemy, that is, the man
who shot him, and talked with him, took
him by the hand, looked him in the face,
and told him that he forgave him, and he
besought the other scouts to forgive him
also. After he was dead, the scouts them
selves gave the deceased a marked but
simple Christian burial. They had prayer,
repeating of scripture, and solemn songs
before they committed him to the earth
The whole bearing of the wounded scout
and of his companions was a remarkable
lesson to our white men who were engaged
in the conflict, and who, though nominally
Christian and better educated than the In
dians, yet were far more careless in Christ
ian observance.-Mqior- General o. o. Hour
ard In December Overland.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
Muller at Issue with Darwin.

While our author declares himself to be
an evolutionist in general, certainly in the
science of language, he brings out as a
prominent consequence of the truth of his
theory of thought, the untruth of that par
ticular doctrine, commonly known as the
Darwinian-namely, that man is descended
from lower forms of animal life. This Pro-
fessor Muller asserts to be impossible; and
the proof is that animals have no language
or any capacity to form language. If
concepts are impossible without names
x we then have a right to say that the
whole genus man possesses something
namely, language, of which no trace can
be found even in the most highly-devel-
oped animal, and that therefore genoa
logical descent of man from animal is i'm
possible" 1t may be admitted freely that
animals have sensations and percepts; they
feel, they perceive, they remember, they act
But concepts they do not have They are
without the power of forming general no.
lions. This is evidenced in the fact that
they are without language, concepts being
impossible without names. Now, it is
quite obvious, to the casual reader even,
that Professor Muller has destroyed his
own argument on this point by his previ-
Gus positions For he takes considerable
pains to prove that percepts are impossible
without concepts, and sensations without
percepts. He maintains that no percep-
tions occurs without a generalizing move
ment. "All percepts are conceptual."
This being So what becomes of the claim
that brutes, with feeling and ability to
perceive, do not form concepts? And if,
as the author reluctantly does in one place,
we concede that perception may exist with
only incipient concepts" what should
prevent the development of the generaliz-
ing power in successive individuals to the
degree that it is found in the highest in
telligence ?-Danid Greenleg Thompson in
Popular Science Monthly for December.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
Storms and Steel Rails.

A singular theory has been promulgated
in Mexico concerning the alleged relation
between the steel rails of railways and the
prevalence of storms. The northern sec
ton of the Mexican Central road has been
seriously damaged by washouts, and peo-
pie who observed the phenomena express
the opinion that the waterspouts which
burst on the track were attracted by the
rails and the telegraph wires An electric
current, they say, runs along the track
which makes convenient avenue for
storms. This would appear to be some
what fanciful conjecture, but the engineers
employed in building the Guadalajara
branch of the Mexican Central Railway
offer testimony which gives it at least an
air of plausibility. They state that as fast
as the construction advances rain follows,
and they believe that it is due to the large
quantity of steel rails on fiat cars which are
carried forward as fast as the work per-
mits. The country, according to their re-
port, is dry in advance of the construction
trains, and also behind them many miles;
but in a circle few miles in diameter,
having its center at the point where steel
rails are, the rain comes down in torrents.
1t appears that enough Importance is at
tached to these theories to induce scien-
tific men to make them subject of study.
We do not, however, anticipate any imme-
date practical results of great value. With
all the skill and knowledge which the
Government can bring to bear, it has not
yet succeeded even in predicting storms
with such certainty as would be desirable
and when it comes to producing or pre-
venting them, we shall probably have to
wait some time before the matter assumes
the character of an exact science.-Me-
chnficnL Ne1rs
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
THAT FAITHFUL WIFE OF IDAHO.

Huge silver snow-peaks white as wool;
Huge sleek, fat steers knee-deep in grass
And belly Deep and belly full,
Their tOwer-bedS one fragrant mass
Oh flower land so calmly grand
Where flowers chase the flying snow
on, hlgh-held land i'll Gods right hand,
Delicious, dreamful Idaho!
We rode the rolling COW -sown hills,
That bearded cGttle-man and :
Below US laughed the blossomed rills,
Above the dappled clouds blew by.
We talked. The topic Guess. Why, sir,
Three-fourthso of all mems time they keep
To talk, to think, to be of HER;
The other fourth they give to sleep.
To learn what he might know of love,
laughed all constancy to scOrn.
g Behold, yon happy, changeful dove!
Behold this day, all storm at morn,
Yet now It's changed to cloud and sun.
Yea, all things change-the heart, the head,
Behold on earth there is not one
That changeth not in love- l said.
He drew a glass, es if to scan
The sleeps for steers; raised il and sighed
He craned his neck, this cattle-man,
Then drove the cork home and replied:
- For twenty years forgive these tears
FOR twenty years no word of strife
have not known for twenty years
One folly from my faithful wife"
l looked that tarn man in the face
That dark brown. bearded cattle-man
He pulled his beard; then dropped in place
broad right hand, all SCARED and tan,
And toyed with something shining there
Above his holster bright and small
was convinced. l did not care
To agitate his mind at all.
But rest l could not. Know must
The story of my stalwart guide;
His dauntless love, enduring trust;
His blessed and most immortal bride
| wondered marveled, marveled much;
Was she of Western growth? Was she
OF Saxon blood, that wife with such
Eternal truth and constancy?
l could not rest until l knew
Now, twenty years, my man. said /,
Il Is long time" He turned, he drew
A pistol forth, also a sigh.
y lis twenty years or more" sighed he.
Nay, nay, my honest man, VOW
do not doubt that this may be;
But tell, oh, tell me how.
- 'Twould make poem, pure and grand;
All time should note it near and far;
And thy fair virgin, gold-sown land
Should stand out like winter star.
America should heed. And then
The doubtful French beyond the sea
'Twoud make them truer, nobler men
To know how this might truly be-
- It's twenty years or more" urged he;
Nay, that l know good guide of mine:
But lead me where this wife may be-
And | pilgrim at a shrine,
And kneeling, rs pilgrim true
He leaving, shouted loud and clear
- cannot show my wife to you;
She's dead this more than twenty year"
Joaquin Miller
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
General Howard on a Reached Mule.

A singular accident occurred to me on
my march across the sage-brush deserts
lying between the Malheur Agency and
the Owyhee river. | had very tall white
mule which served me instead of saddle
horse. He was very sensitive animal,
and much to the discontinue of the officers
and men who followed, he took as an ha-
bitual walking gait very rapid and
lengthy stride He had large ears and
probably at some time name. But to
beautify him in frontier style the name
was reached (shorn) as closely as possible
As we were walking along rapidly, my
staff officer near me, Colonel e. c. Mason,
my inspector, was riding few steps to my
left and rear Suddenly he cried out as
we were passing some dry, heavy knots of
sage-brush lying in the trail: ooh, Gen
eral General your cinch p My large
cared mule had at that instant caught sight
of that same cinch (girth), or rather the
shadow Of it. The fastening had given way
and it was loose and pendent OF course
there was nothing to hold my saddle, and
there WIS no name for my hands to seize.
The mule bounded through the air like a
frightened deer, and sent me, saddle and all,
head first to the ground. l landed upon
some heavy sage knots, one of which struck
my side, injured my ribs and bruised me
badly. At first, With the breath knocked
out of my body, could not move or speak
and believed my ribs ere broken. Very
soon, however, by the kino1'Y help Of those
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

Work upon the Mont Gents tunnel was
begun in 1857, about two years before De
Lesseps commenced operations in Egypt.
The working parties in the opposite head
lngs, French and Italian, met on Christ
mas-day, 1870, about a year after the IN
auguration Of the Suez canal The St.
Gothard tunnel was begun after the COM
pletion of the Mont Gents, in 1922 the
headings met February %, 1880. The
length Of the Mont Cents tunnel is over
seven and a half miles; that of the St.
Gothard about nine and a quarter miles.
These are the longest tunnels ever con-
structed. The invention, by means of
which the progress of the work was facili-
tated, consists in the use of atmospheric
air as a motor. By means of water-power
air is reduced to one-sixth its ordinary
bulk, and the expansive force thus ac-
quired performs the drilling. Owing
to the conditions under which tun-
neling is done, this method is of signal
advantage. Each of the Alpine tunnels
was excavated through solid rock, so that
blasting was necessary. The use of explo-
sives vitiated the air, while the length of
the passage and the impossibility of sink
ing shafts made the ventilation question a
vital one. Had the drills been run by
steam the presence of steam-engines con-
stantly generated smoke and gas would
have heated and vitiated the air still fur
Their. BY the new invention the difficulty
was met. The air was compressed outside
the tunnel and conveyed into it by pipes.
Here double purpose was served: by its
expansion and Liberation the air ran the
drills and ventilated the tunnel. The in
vention which makes this practicable is
called the Sommeiller machine, from the
name of the chief inventor.-Sgart F.
Veld in Popular Science Monthly for De
cegl6cr.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

Nothing in the ancient history of man
is of more considerable interest than are
those monuments, at once rudely grand and
mysteriously simple, which have been
designated megalithic They may be
simply raised stones, isolated menhirs,
cromlechs arranged in a circle, or artificial
caves formed by placing flat flags horizon
tally on standing supports. Dolmens or
covered passages were usually buried under
masses of earth or stones so as to form a
veritable tumuli; but they always present
the common character of being constructed
in rough block, virgin of all human labor.
Megaliths are important on account of
their number and their dispersion. They
are to be found, with likeness running
through them all, in places most remote
from one another, ON different continents.
At Carnac and at Kermarin are immense
rows of stones, of which the menhirs of
the Khasias of India appear like exact
copies. Similar dolmens are standing
in Palestine, Ireland and Hindostan.
Megaliths can be found in Peru, and
North America, in Spain and Denmark, in
terranean, on the shores of the Dead Sea
anu vi thS Ddlllhj DIT luS lOOI Ol MOUTH
Sinai. and in Iceland. The dolmens raised
upon the top of a tumulus in Algeria may
be compared with those standing in the
department of the Aveyron or with those
in Kintyre, Scotland, aud Roskilde in
Scandinavia; the cromlech of Maytura, in
Iceland, with that at Halskov, in Den
mark the circle at Peshawur, in Afghan
istan, with the circle of Stennis, in one of
the Orcades the tombs of the Neilgherries
with the chondets that are found in
Africa; the cromlechs of Algeria, with
those of Aschenrade, on the Dwina, the
triliths of Stonehenge with those of Tri-
poll, or those mentioned by Palgrave as in
Arabia. Even superficial study will dis
close the relations that exist between the
covered passages of Provence and the
megaliths of Brittany, and between these
and analogous constructions in Spain and
Algeria. A common thought, and an
identical funeral rite, are revealed.-Popu-
Tar Science Monthly.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

A SIMPLE TEST OF KEROSENE On
Take an ordinary pint tin cup. Fill it
within an inch of the top with water
warmed to the temperature Of 1902 Fair
Pour on this water three or four table
spoonfuls of the oil to be tested. Stir the
oil and water together and wait short
time, say minute or two, for the oil to
collect on the top. Try the the Their
mometer again, and if the temperature is
more than one degree from 1902 Fair. add
little cold or hot water, as the case may
be, so as to bring the temperature within
one degree of 1902 Fair. Then stir again
and give time as before for the oil to come
to the top. Now apply burning match
or lighted taper on level with the top of
the cup, say within half an inch of the
oil. If within one second no fash occurs,
the oil is reasonably safe; if otherwise, it
is unsafe Purchase four or FIVE gallons of
oil at time, and apply this test at each
Wood and Iron.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

\ MILLER's EccENTRIcITIEs.-Ne
Proctorsville, VT, is burying ground that
contains monument erected to himself by
an eccentric character named Ordway,
who paid clergyman 500 for conducting
his funeral while he was alive and in good
health. The funeral was characterized
with solemnity, the preacher standing be-
side an empty coffin and Mr.. Ordway sit
among the invited guests, enjoying his
own eulogy, and the coffin was kept in the
house until the time arrived for him to Fill
it, when burial took place in due form,
and the date of his death was craven on
the back of the monument. The shaft
stands on big milestone, for Mr.. Ordway
was miller, and the inscription written,
and | believe, carved by himself, read as
follows; '"Tho | am dead yet speaketh for
here is rest upon this milestone top l set
this noble block to let the world know what
/ have done, it has ever been my hearts de-
sire to do unto you as l would that We
should do unto me, so cast the beam out of
your own eye and let me lie in peace; and
sing my redeemer's love, come my sweet
companion meet me here. David Ordway,
1884. "-BrooklyR EAGLE.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
Municipal Patriotism.

The voter who has come to claim for
his individual conscience the supreme
power of private JUDGMENT in national
politics is still far too apt to accept with
out hesitation the guidance of his party
machine" in State politics, while he
looks upon city politics as practically be-
meath his notice. He is aflronted by the
action of his national party, in any of its
attempts to control the action of its
minorities, while he gazes TRANQUILITY above
and beyond the groSsest abuse of his own
city government His Common Council
spends months in deadlock" over the
appointment of three or four policemen,
and " deals" and diplomatic negotiations
enough for the management of an empire
and hardly enough success for the manage
ment of kitchen; the Fire Department,
the Health Department. the Building De-
partment, the Department of Puzzle
Works, the Police Department and the
Department of Education, which should
be in active and harmonious cooperation,
spend the time and effort which should be
given to the city service in dealing one
another vicious blows through the news
papers and elsewhere ; taxation results
merely in providing a livelihood for in
competent officials and in thrusting inef-
hclent public service upon the citizens !;
and still the citizens refuse to learn the
essential lesson that there is such thing
as municipal patriotism, and that NUM-
cipal politics is its only practical mode of
expression.
Why should the politics of the city be
tied down to the politics of the nation or
the State Is there any identity of inter
est between the two, such as would be ant
to secure efficient city administration bv a
selection of city officers based upon ma
tional party preferences? Every one
knowns the contrary, from practice as well
as from theory; in q few Of our cities. the
lesson has already developed strong and
effective independent city vote; and vet.
take the country through, the individual
conscience seems 10 be almost as inert As
ever in this matter. The man who, moved
by conscience, takes up his own burden of
battle against the abuses of his own city
government, Is pretty certain of the pity
of those who know him personally and Of
the criticism of those who are strangers to
him; he need not expect that which he
deserves-the cordial sympathy of his fell
low-citfzens. their consideration for his in
evitable errors, and their rejoicing in his
successes. His fellow-citizens have not vet
been educated up to that point. We still
lack that essential factor in political deyel-
opment municipal patriotism. Thou
sands of men hive been found ready and
willing to die for the United States or
even for the individual State. Where are
the men who would Gle for Brooklyn. or
Chicago, or San Francisco? Where, in
deed, are the men who world Ire for them?
Tho Century for December.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

A BUG DIG THE GRAvE.-A party of
young people witnessed very interesting
performance in yard on School street on
Friday afternoon. A dead mouse was
thrown out into the yard by party resid-
ing in a house, the body falling near 4
large beetle bugwhich CHANGED to be stroll
ing through the grass at the time. The
bug seemed to be somewhat surprised at
having something come so suddenly upon
him, and stopped on his way to investigate.
Finding that there was no life in the body,
the insect at once commenced operations
to bury it. 1t dug hole near the under
pinning of the house, and then walked
around to the opposite side of the dead
mouse, and putting its head under the in
animate body it worked his body slowly in,
and in this manner got the mouse over to
the place dug. After getting the body to
the hole it found THAI it was too big to 90
in, so it commenced to heap dirt on it till
it was all covered up. When this work
was done it crawled away, seeming per-
fectly satisfied with its job. Whether the
burial was out of sympathy or for further
use the party who witnessed it could not
tell, but be that as it may, it was an inter
esting eyent.-Neuburypo, Neps.